A "poorly targeted and infeasible" scheme to recruit Newstart recipients to fruit picking jobs has been scrapped after finding positions for just 6% of intended recipients.
Showing posts with label Liberal Nationals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liberal Nationals. Show all posts
Wagging the dog on welfare demonisation
The government is being hammered on Robodebts and calls to raise the pitiful rate of Newstart... then RWNJs favourite breakfast TV show, Sunrise, runs a feature story this morning about "dole bludger" and "welfare fraud".
It's so utterly predictable. Deflect and denigrate.
